Linked List: October 2025
Thursday, 30 October 2025
- Hi, it’s me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology ✶
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McSweeney’s on point.
Thursday, 23 October 2025
- Song stretcher ✶
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Slow down or speed up any audio file. Useful for learning fast passages, or sequences of notes, like Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar licks.
Saturday, 4 October 2025
- One Battle After Another ✶
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Watched this in the cinema yesterday. Excellent film.
My favorite line was Benicio del Toro’s, channeling Nina Simone:
“You know what freedom is? No fear.”
Friday, 3 October 2025
- C2PA Investigations ✶
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Tim Bray looks into the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, or C2PA technical standard “…for publishers, creators and consumers to establish the origin and edits of digital content.”
So for me, it’s the P and A in C2PA that matter – provenance and authenticity. I think the technology has the potential to change the global Internet conversation for the better, by making it harder for liars to lie and easier for truth-tellers to be believed. I think the first steps that have been taken so far are broadly correct and the path forward is reasonably clear. All the little things that are broken, we can fix ’em.
And there aren’t that many things that matter more than promoting truth and discouraging lies.